The thought of this made her heart tremble with fear, and a trace of cold sweat broke out on her forehead. This was an important item related to the family inheritance, and there was absolutely no room for error! So, she made a quick decision and decided to immediately inform Liu Pei and Liu Feng of this astonishing discovery.
Upon hearing this, Liu Pei's expression changed drastically. He and Liu Feng exchanged glances, then huddled together to discuss the situation in low voices. Sometimes their brows furrowed, as if they were pondering a response; sometimes they whispered to each other, quietly sharing their thoughts. After a long while, they finally stopped discussing and looked back at Wang Xiaolan.
Liu Pei said, "Sister-in-law, the information you provided is very important. You have excellent medical skills, and you have the medical book passed down from generation to generation. You may be Liang Qiushi's first target. However, we have also discovered that those old professors who have just returned to the city are also their targets. If Liang Qiushi deliberately asks for what you have, you can throw out some unimportant things to give him a taste of the sweetness. Don't worry, Liu Feng will secretly protect you."
Just then, the school bell rang, and the three of them went back to their classrooms.
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In the afternoon, after school, Wang Xiaolan brought Zhou Bihua and Wang Shanhu to her own courtyard.
As soon as Zhou Bihua and Wang Shanhu stepped into the compound, they exclaimed, "Is this the house you bought in Kyoto?"
Wang Xiaolan smiled and did not deny it.
Wang Shanhu said excitedly: "Sister Wang, you are so capable! You are really a rich woman."
Wang Xiaolan said, "I'm not a rich woman. These are the herbs I collected in the mountains when I went to the countryside. I sold them to the pharmacy and saved money. My biological parents found me and felt they owed me, so they gave me their savings. My brother also gave me the money he saved, and the child's father also gave me a lot of money. That's how I bought this house."
Zhou Bihua said with envy: "Xiaolan, you are so lucky to have so many people who love you. Unlike me, I am a lonely person with no mother and no father."
Wang Shanhu asked curiously, "No, I heard you say it yourself. Don't you have parents, a brother, and a sister?"
Zhou Bihua said with a sad face, "You're right. They are all my half-sisters. They all treat me like an outsider. There's no sisterly love."
Wang Shanhu, after hearing her say this, asked in confusion: "Then where is your biological father?"
Zhou Bihua said, "When I was little, my grandmother told me that when I was still in my mother's womb, my father was working as a porter at the docks with a group of people. He was captured by soldiers and taken to a ship. According to the news brought back by those who escaped, they said that the ship was heading to some island."
"After my mother gave birth to me, life was too hard. She couldn't support me, so she had to remarry. Through a matchmaker, my mother and my current father got married. Soon after the marriage, several younger siblings were born, and life became even harder. As the eldest child, I naturally took on the labor force in the family, and later I went to the countryside. I didn't expect that after going to the countryside, I would be assigned to a disgusting family. I was plotted against by this family, and I had no choice but to become their main labor force, leading to an unbearable life..."
Wang Xiaolan felt very uncomfortable listening to her and sighed in her heart: What a miserable person.
She then said comfortingly, "Sister Zhou, you've endured all these hardships. Haven't you been admitted to university now? Things will definitely get better in the future."
Wang Shanhu echoed, "Yes, it will definitely get better. I didn't have a good life with my adoptive parents before, but it was Sister Wang's father who helped me find my biological parents. They both love me very much, and my life now is sweeter than honey. Sister Zhou, we have to build this fermented tofu workshop and do it well. I believe your life will definitely get better and better."
Wang Xiaolan thought to herself, "In a few years, our country's policies will surely open up further to the outside world. In later generations, I've heard many stories about the veterans on that island."
"Those veterans, although advanced in age, yearn for their hometowns and loved ones more deeply. So, one after another, they embarked on the journey home, just to find their long-lost relatives. If Zhou Bihua's father were still alive, perhaps he would also return to the land where he was born and raised to look for his relatives!"
Thinking of this, she comforted Zhou Bihua and said, "Shanhu is right. Maybe one day, your biological father will come back to find you."
Zhou Bihua asked doubtfully, "Will he come back to see me?" She paused and said, "So many years have passed, and he hasn't come back to see me and my mother. I don't know whether he is dead or alive. Now I am no longer old enough to need my father's care. Forget it, I don't want to think about it. I just want to live a good life and don't want my daughter to suffer the pain I once suffered."
She paused, looked at Wang Shanhu, then looked at Wang Xiaolan and said, "I didn't expect you to be so rich. You don't look down on me, a poor man, at all. You even want to help me. I, I really met a noble person!"
As she spoke, her knees bent involuntarily, and she was about to kneel to the ground. At this moment, Wang Xiaolan was quick to reach out and hold her tightly with both hands.
Wang Xiaolan frowned slightly and said seriously, "Sister Zhou, please don't be like this! I'm not the type to help anyone I see. This is simply because we're destined to be together! If it weren't for this rare coincidence, I probably wouldn't have easily intervened in this matter. So, Sister Zhou, you really don't have to thank me with such a generous gift."
Wang Shanhu nodded slightly and said softly, "Indeed, it was fate that brought us together. Speaking of our Sister Wang, she's truly a low-key person! Not only is she capable, but she never uses her status to suppress others. And look at that Chen Min, wow... she's completely useless, with no skills at all, yet she desperately flaunts her wealth all day long."
"They always feel like their parents' official titles are so high and mighty they block out the sun, and they act so high and mighty all the time. It's really unbearable! But our Wang Jie is different. Let's not even talk about her equally remarkable parents, just look at her husband—he's a legitimate army commander! With such a distinguished status and achievements, anyone else would have boasted to the heavens long ago, but have you ever seen our Wang Jie flaunt it? Absolutely not!"
When Zhou Bihua heard that Wang Xiaolan's husband was actually a regiment commander, he was so shocked that his mouth opened wide enough to fit an egg in it. He shouted, "What? Regiment commander?"
Wang Shanhu asked, "Do you know how high a rank the regiment commander is?"
Zhou Bihua scratched his head and said with a puzzled look: "As for me, I only know that the county magistrate is a very high-ranking official! But as for the regiment commander, how high of an official he is, I'm not really sure." He blinked, as if wanting to get a definite answer from Wang Shanhu.
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